sjtv-zap2xml

Docker container for zap2xml. DockerFile to build from Alpine for a small, portable zap2xml instance. Removes dependency questions.

zap2xml Options

  -u <username>
  -p <password>
  -d <# of days> (default = $days)
  -n <# of no-cache days> (from end)   (default = $ncdays)
  -N <# of no-cache days> (from start) (default = $ncsdays)
  -B <no-cache day>
  -s <start day offset> (default = $start)
  -o <output xml filename> (default = "$outFile")
  -c <cacheDirectory> (default = "$cacheDir")
  -l <lang> (default = "$lang")
  -i <iconDirectory> (default = don't download channel icons)
  -m <#> = offset program times by # minutes (better to use TZ env var)
  -b = retain website channel order
  -x = output XTVD xml file format (default = XMLTV)
  -w = wait on exit (require keypress before exiting)
  -q = quiet (no status output)
  -r <# of connection retries before failure> (default = $retries, max 20)
  -e = hex encode entities (html special characters like accents)
  -E "amp apos quot lt gt" = selectively encode standard XML entities
  -F = output channel names first (rather than "number name")
  -O = use old tv_grab_na style channel ids (C###nnnn.zap2it.com)
  -A "new live" = append " *" to program titles that are "new" and/or "live"
  -M = copy movie_year to empty movie sub-title tags
  -U = UTF-8 encoding (default = "ISO-8859-1")
  -L = output "<live />" tag (not part of xmltv.dtd)
  -T = don't cache files containing programs with "$sTBA" titles 
  -P <http://proxyhost:port> = to use an http proxy
  -C <configuration file> (default = "$confFile")
  -S <#seconds> = sleep between requests to prevent flooding of server 
  -D = include details = 1 extra http request per program!
  -I = include icons (image URLs) - 1 extra http request per program!
  -J <xmltv> = include xmltv file in output
  -Y <lineupId> (if not using username/password)
  -Z <zipcode> (if not using username/password)
  -z = use tvguide.com instead of zap2it.com
  -a = output all channels (not just favorites) 
  -j = add "series" category to all non-movie programs

Environment Settings

You can configure the following environment variables in Dockerfile as below:

Required

• USERNAME - zap2it.com or tvguide.com username
• PASSWORD - zap2it.com or tvguide.com password

Optional

• OPT_ARGS - additional command line arguments for zap2xml. Add -z for tvguide.com
• XMLTV_FILENAME - filename for your xmltv file (default: xmltv.xml)
• SLEEPTIME - time in seconds to wait before next run (default: 43200)

zap2xml additional arguments

You can configure additional parameters to zapxml.pl command in entry.sh file. Look Options above

Build process (manual)

Clone this repository Open the cloned directory and run below command docker build -t zap2xml .

Requires: /data volume, This volume is used for cache, config, and output

Example run command

docker run --rm -v /data/docker/zap2xml:/data zap2xml

This will output xmltv.xml file with a week EPG data in /data/docker/zapxml/ folder

Notes: This repo is derived from the work of [shuaiscott] (https://github.com/shuaiscott/zap2xml) and [crlorentzen] (https://github.com/crlorentzen/docker-zap2xml)